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Italy’s Alta Badia region has launched a snow-production report, allowing skiers and boarders to monitor, in real time, on their computers or mobile devices, the progress of work on Alta Badia’s slopes. The ski area is equipped with the latest high-performance artificial snowmaking equipment, and a data aggregator, developed by…
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At its Annual General Meeting convened on Trockener Steg on 29 September 2018, Zermatt Bergbahnen AG is able to report another gratifying result and confirm last year’s record performance. Despite a difficult winter, the result was slightly up on last year’s record figures. Sales in fiscal 2017/18 totalled CHF 69.6…
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Peak Retreats (www.peakretreats.co.uk; 023 9283 9310) was announced as the winner of The Times Travel Editor’s Award 2018 on the evening of 20th September 2018 at The News UK Travel Awards ceremony near Johannesburg, South Africa. The annual The Times, The Sunday Times and The Sunday Times Travel Magazine Travel…
Read MoreKazakhstan may become a leading player in ski tourism in the 2020s if the governments plans to expand the country’s ski area network and link some resorts by gondola lifts comes to fruition. Minister of Culture and Sport Arystanbek Mukhamediuly, has announced plans to inter-connect the country’s existing mountain resorts…
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The 2018/19 winter season at Winter Park Resort promises to be a watershed moment in the history of the resort as well as the surrounding community with a host of exciting changes taking place. These additions will keep Winter Park among the top resorts in the world, preserving its storied…
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Around 50 years after access to the Schilthorn – Piz Gloria was opened up by cable car, Schilthorn Cableway Ltd has presented the new project SCHILTHORN 20XX. The idea behind it is to replace the current cable car with a new aerial cableway. Based on the existing buildings and lines,…
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French ski resort les Arcs, which celebrates 50 years in business this winter and has long had a “special relationship” with British skiers, says it will be “thumbing our nose at Brexit” at a special celebration due to begin the day after so-called Brexit Day, 29th March 2019. The resort…
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Verbier is partnering with Liverpool Football Club to promote itself more specifically in the European and British markets. Through its sponsorship of the Premier League club, which earned its place in the European Cup final, the Swiss ski resort will seek to increase brand visibility and position itself as the…
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The Compagnie du Mont-Blanc which operates the ski lifts and runs around Chamonix as well as many other leading French resorts has announced a €10m investment over the summer in upgrading the Plateau de Lognan at the resort’s Grands Montets ski area. The old Marmottons and Tabé chairlifts have been…
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Tignes had been due to open the French 2018-19 ski season this weekend but now says it won’t be, and it isn’t sure when it will. The problem is another long hot summer has further depleted the resort’s Grand Motte glacier and current webcam images show exposed rock and ice…
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